Deploy a New Product Release Version for a Digital Product Scenario

The goal of this scenario is to plan, prepare, and update the existing Actual Product Instances. This ensures a stable Product Instance after the Deploy value stream is completed. The deployment strategy may depend on the Digital Product: some might require a maintenance window in which deployment can be executed, while for others a completely new version will be installed alongside an existing version. As every deployment should result in a stable Product Instance in production, there are some points to address:

  • To mitigate risk, the plan should include a “point of no return” in time, and a “rollback to the last known good configuration” plan

    These should be addressed and practiced during the development of the Product Release.

  • During the execution of the deployment, stakeholders should be informed; for example, the monitoring events can be suppressed to prevent disrupting the Operate value stream